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Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
Year : 2019, Volume : 10, Issue : 10
First page : ( 1482) Last page : ( 1486)
Print ISSN : 0976-0245. Online ISSN : 0976-5506.
Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-5506.2019.03046.8

Stunting Status of New Children Enter Elementary School Between Urban and Rural Areas in Jayapura City, Papua

Mapandin Wahida Y.

Lecturer of Nutrition Department Faculty of Public Health, Cenderawasih University

Online published on 23 December, 2019.

Abstract

Background

The optimal growth of school-age children depends on providing nutrition with good and correct quality and quantity. One way that can be done to determine the implementers of nutrition improvement is to determine or see the physical size, both in height and weight. A person's physical size is closely related to nutritional status. Measurement of nutritional status in school children can be done by anthropometry. Based on WHO 2007 anthropometry standards for children aged 5–18 years, the nutritional status of children is determined based on the value of Z-score TB/U and BMI/U. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were anthropometric differences in children entering primary school based on the index TB/U and BMI/U. Method: The type of research used is descriptive analytical research with cross sectional approach. The study population was 84 children who had just entered elementary school and this study used the Total Sampling Technique, where the number of samples was the same as the population of 84 school children. Results: The results of the study showed that there were no anthropometric differences in children entering primary school based on the TB/U and BMI/U index in urban and rural areas. Statistical analysis of TB/U using a non-parametric test shows the probability value (sig)> 0.05 (0.078> 0.05). While the BMI/U is known the probability value (sig)> 0.05 (0.140> 0.05). Energy and protein intake for urban and rural school children tends to be less. Nutritional deficiency is a factor associated with the nutritional status of school-age children. This is exacerbated by the high incidence of infections in children and most of the parents of disadvantaged people so that the purchasing power of food in households is low. Conclusion: There is no anthropometric difference in children enrolled in primary school based on the TB/U and BMI/U index in urban and rural areas.

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Keywords

TB/U, BMI/U, School Children, City, Village.

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